From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15441 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2009 03:36:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 15395 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Sep 2009 03:36:01 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:35:54 +0000 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB9F69455; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:35:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:35:52 -0400 Received: from [10.1.120.31] (unknown [202.28.62.101]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 80F0A280EE for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:35:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4AA72295.7010401@fmail.co.uk> Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:36:00 -0000 From: Kit Johnson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Help needed getting unicode working in bash Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00194.txt.bz2 I'm just getting started with cygwin and really enjoying the linux-like functionality under windows. I have one major problem which is displaying unicode filenames in bash. There are two references in the cygwin documentation to getting unicode up and running. Unfortunately the FAQ is incredibly brief and provides no usable instructions for a non-expert. http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.unicode The documentation page is much more detailed, but having read it many, many times, I still have no idea what I actually need to do to get things running. I am not expert enough to understand it. http://www.cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html To be specific about my problem, I do not need to type unicode under bash, I simply want to be able to list them (using ls) and archive them (using tar). Currently all I get is this: "ls: cannot access ???????????????? : No such file or directory." Many thanks. Kit -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple